Installation guide

A VNC window opens showing the start of the guest operating system installation process.
This concludes the general process for creating guests with virt-manager. Chapter 8, Guest
operating system installation procedures contains step-by-step instructions to installing a variety of
common operating systems.
7.3. Inst alling guest s wit h PXE
This section covers the steps required to install guests with PXE. PXE guest installation requires a
shared network device, also known as a network bridge. The procedures below covers creating a
bridge and the steps required to utilize the bridge for PXE installation.
1. ⁠
Creat e a n ew b rid g e
a. Create a new network script file in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
directory. This example creates a file named ifcfg-installation which makes a
bridge named installation.
# cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
# vim ifcfg-installation
DEVICE=installation
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